Question

The country which stands first in wheat production is ________________.
A.India
B.U.S.A
C.Russia
D.China

Answer 1

Hint: The largest wheat producing country in the world is also the fourth-largest country in the world followed by Brazil, Australia and India. It lies between the latitudes 18 degrees and 54 degrees North and longitudes 73 degrees and 135 degrees East.

Complete Answer: The People’s Republic of China since 1991 has always been the top producers of wheat in the world. After rice, wheat is China’s second-most important staple crop. It is also the third-most important crop overall right after maize and rice. China’s wheat production over the past decade has supplied about 98 percent to 102 percent of domestic demand. Wheat creation in China has developed consistently all through the most recent quite a few years, aside from a brief time of stagnation from the last part of the 1990s to the beginning of 2000s.

China’s wheat-growing regions are divided into three main agro-ecological zones, namely, northern winter wheat, southern winter wheat and southern spring wheat regions respectively. The most important wheat producing area out of all the three regions is the northern China winter wheat region which accounts for 60 to 70 percent of wheat production followed by the southern China winter wheat region.

Thus, the correct answer is option (D).

Note: The major wheat-producing countries other than China are India, the Russian Federation, the United States of America and Canada. India comes second on the list of wheat-producing countries, right after China with an average production of 103,600 thousand tonnes in 2019.